A protester who preferred not to give his name watches with others as fireworks blaze into the night above them outside of the jail during an Occupy Oakland protest march that started and ended at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza and took them to the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility December 31, 2013 in downtown Oakland. A little over 100 people marched and chanted in the unsanctioned protest. Once arriving at the jail, the protesters set off fireworks, cheered and clapped and at one point began chanting, "you are not alone!" One could hear banging on the jail windows that faced the street. An American flag bandana was set on fire before the protesters marched back to the plaza and around the area for about a half an hour before finally dispersing on the corner of 14th and Broadway a little after 11pm. There were no arrests, according to the police.

Photo: Leah Millis, The San Francisco Chronicle

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Oakland Police officers sprint ahead of protesters to block an intersection and the back entrance to the Plaza during an Occupy Oakland protest march that started and ended at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza and took them to the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility December 31, 2013 in downtown Oakland. A little over 100 people marched and chanted in the unsanctioned protest. Once arriving at the jail, the protesters set off fireworks, cheered and clapped and at one point began chanting, "you are not alone!" One could hear banging on the jail windows that faced the street. An American flag bandana was set on fire before the protesters marched back to the plaza and around the area for about a half an hour before finally dispersing on the corner of 14th and Broadway a little after 11pm. There were no arrests, according to the police.

In Oakland, an Occupy march resulted in no vandalism, property damage or acts of violence and only six citations were issues for a range of minor city code violations, police said.

In San Francisco, tens of thousands lined the Embarcadero for unobstructed views of the 15 minutes of fireworks and then went peacefully on their way.

BART, which rang in the new year with a 5.2 percent fare increase as well as an extra 90 minutes of service through the early morning, reported no problems before or after midnight.

Earlier Tuesday, however, there were two separate pedestrian deaths in San Francisco, including a 6-year-old girl walking with her mother and brother at Polk and Ellis streets at about 8:30 p.m. and an 86-year-old man in Crocker-Amazon at 3:30 p.m.

Also, a 19-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed at an intersection in Fremont just before 10 p.m.

And in Oakland, two people were shot and killed in separate incidents. A 13-year-old boy was shot several times at about 9:30 p.m. while walking on the 1400 block of 104th Avenue. He died several hours later at a hospital, the city's first homicide of 2014. His identity was not immediately available.

Also on New Year's Eve, Ashlee Walker, 21, was shot and killed while sitting in a car in Oakland's San Antonio neighborhood.

Elsewhere, alcohol reportedly played a role in three incidents.

In East Palo Alto, a man apparently shot himself in the head Tuesday while handling a firearm after consuming alcoholic beverages, police said.

The 26-year-old victim was transported to a local hospital after the 9:07 p.m. shooting and was in critical condition, according to East Palo Alto police.

Investigators believe the man accidentally shot himself.

In Hayward, a suspected drunken driver speeding through a neighborhood at 5:40 a.m. on New Year's Day somehow launched his car, sheared off a tree branch at least a dozen feet off the ground, and landed on top of a vintage Ford Mustang, according to reports.

The driver was transported to a hospital with unknown injuries, according to media accounts.

And in Vallejo, a 22-year-old woman in a Mini Cooper ran a stop sign at about 2:15 a.m. on New Year's Day and hit a police car.

Two officers in the vehicle were treated at a hospital for minor injuries and released.

The driver, Vilma Berzave-Renderos of Vallejo, admitted to having a "few drinks" at a San Francisco nightclub earlier in the evening, police said.

A breath sample found Berzave-Renderos was driving under the influence, police said in a statement.

She was booked into the Solano County Jail for felony drunken driving.

In San Mateo County, however, the holiday DUI numbers were down compared with this time last year.

From 12:01 a.m. Dec. 13 through midnight Tuesday, there were 168 individuals arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, down from 201 during the same period in 2012.